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Finding the Time: Challenges Facing Working Families. Heather Boushey Center for Economic and Policy Research 16 June 2006. Figure 1. Labor supply of men and women, age 20 and over. Figure 2. Annual hours of work in married families in middle fifth of income distribution, 1979 & 2000.
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Finding the Time: Challenges Facing Working Families Heather Boushey Center for Economic and Policy Research 16 June 2006
Figure 2. Annual hours of work in married families in middle fifth of income distribution, 1979 & 2000 Source: Mishel, Bernstein, and Allegretto, 2004.
Figure 3. Growth in inflation-adjusted family income Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income Tables, Tables F1 & F5 http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/.
Figure 4. Percent change in income without wives earnings, 1979-2000 Source: Mishel, Bernstein, and Allegretto, 2004.
Figure 5. The “two-income trap” Source: Warren and Tyagi, 2005. The Two-Income Trap, p. 51.
Figure 6. The effect of children on women’s employment is not increasing Source: Boushey, 2005. Notes: Sample is women aged 25 to 45.